a critique of the march on Sandton

[Gordon Fitch]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> >>> I don't think the only two paths open are 1) burning down convention
> >>> centers or 2) listening to blowhards drone on. No one burned anything
> >>> down in Seattle. A few windows were broken, which is more than fine with
> >>> me, but no one thought to castrate the Space Needle.

Joe R. Golowka:
> >> So, should people in Argentina stop burning banks down?

Gordon Fitch: 
> > It depends on what it accomplishes, materially speaking.  I
> > think there's a considerable danger that burning banks and
> > the like may become fetishized, since they're sort of
> > exciting and enjoyable in themselves.  What do you do for an
> > encore?

Chris Clarke:
> Apply for jobs rebuilding the bank.

All this heroic stuff about smashing bank windows and
getting beaten by the cops is thrilling, but it's too much. 
I want a radical praxis the weak, the foolish, the friendless,
the poor, the cowardly, the least and the last can practice:
a praxis for me and mine.  

-- Gordon